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Scary steel cyberpunk sculptures

Frightful futuristic critters and human augmentation systems get their due in an artist's studio.

Emily Shurr
Emily Shurr is CNET News.com general-assignment news producer.
Emily Shurr

New York machine artist Stephen Conti is obsessed with steel robotics. Take a look at his highly polished articulated hands, tarantulas, and unmanned anti-personnel devices--all inspired by the science fiction genre known as cyberpunk. There's one steampunk-inspired bug in the batch as well, and all are executed with a watchmaker's precision and an aesthete's eye.

Nightmare warning: we abdicate any responsibility for sleep loss involving the Lethal Injection Attack Droid Prototype.

See the full gallery on Wired: Creepy cyberpunk fantasies come to life